Makers Advocate
Makers Advocate LLC creates software designed to help independent makers and small maker businesses better understand their costs, pricing, and profitability.
Making a great product is only part of building a sustainable maker business. Understanding what that product really costs and what you need to charge for your work can be much harder.
Our goal is to make those decisions clearer, more practical, and easier to act on.
Makers Pricing Companion (MPC)
Makers Pricing Companion is our first product: an iPhone and iPad app designed to help makers understand what goes into the cost of a product and make more informed pricing decisions.
Makers can bring together the different parts of their work, including Materials, Consumables, Labor, and Machine Time, to build a clearer picture of Product Cost, pricing, margin, and profitability.
Makers Pricing Companion is being designed to remain focused on the business side of making without becoming accounting or general business-management software.
The app is currently in development.
Independent makers often work across materials, machines, hands-on labor, consumables, setup time, short production runs, custom processes, and one-off work.
Those realities can make traditional costing and pricing advice difficult to apply.
Makers Advocate exists to build practical tools around the way makers actually work. Our goal is to help make important business decisions easier to understand without requiring the maker to become an accountant or financial analyst.
Our focus is on pricing, costing, profitability, and useful business visibility.
Makers Advocate products are not substitutes for accounting, tax, legal, or financial advice.
Making products can become complex very quickly. Understanding the numbers behind them should not have to be.
We favor clear language, understandable calculations, thoughtful defaults, and interfaces that help explain important decisions without getting in the way.
We believe makers should retain meaningful control over their business information.
Our products are designed with privacy in mind, including minimizing unnecessary collection of sensitive maker business data and favoring local device storage where practical.
Materials, consumables, labor, machines, setup time, short production runs, and custom work can all affect what a maker needs to charge.
We design around those realities rather than forcing maker businesses into generic assumptions.
A product can sell well and still be priced poorly.
We want makers to understand not only what something costs to make, but what its price means for the sustainability of the business behind it.
Questions about Makers Advocate or Makers Pricing Companion are welcome.
Email: info@makersadvocate.com